On a Saturday morning Astrid and myself went from Hamburg to the Wadden Sea near the island of Pellworm. We where invited by Wilfried Dunckel, who has organized a very special event. With a small motor wessel we where allowed to set foot on one of the great sands west of the North Frisian Islands.
Equipped with large tele-lenses, we went out into the Wadden Sea to the Norderoogsand. Soon a large seal colony appeared on the dry sands.
The Blue Port in Hamburg is a one-week light installation by the artist Michael Batz. At the end of the week we have the Cruise Days, a freeway fair for the cruise industry. The blue lamps are installed at buildings, bridges, cranes and quays and dive the harbor into a miraculous blue light.
The Olympic Swimming Pool of 1972. The daring architecture fascinates me again and again. The oblique standing post, on which the whole roof construction is suspended. In this infrared photograph, he stands out from the trees, the hall is a little hidden in the white foliage. In front of it lies the Great Olympian Lake, on which pedal boats make their way.
A week in the expanse of the sands in front of St. Peter-Ording. At sunrise on the Hitzsand, the clouds are piling up above me, and sometimes a rain showers pass by.
In the low season there is a special atmosphere on the sandbank in front of St. Peter-Ording. The beach basket islands are empty, the stairs to the houses of the beach supervision are dismantled and only a few toys wait for children.
When I travel for work, I come to many a small town in Lower Saxony. Today, Varel surprised me as a real gem. At the Schloßplatz (!) there is also this beautiful brick building, which appeared to be the district court when I got closer. The hedges and the tree in front of the right wing give a nice contrast to the architecture.
This year (2014), the Schlossplatz is being completely redesigned to become the center of the city again. So unfortunately I could only see the beautiful castle church to the right of where I took the picture from up close and couldn’t do any infrared photography. So I’ll have to go there again later…
The Jenisch house was built between 1831 and 1834 and was opened to the public almost a hundred years later as a museum with the surrounding park. The shadow play of the large trees on the Elbe side of the house is great.